Bulldogs Drop Season Finale 4-0 To Princeton

Andy Hackbarth (photo by Don Clark, Yale Sports Publicity)

Nov 13, 2009

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PRINCETON, N.J. - The Yale men's soccer team didn't have an
answer for Princeton's Antoine Hoppenot on Friday night at Roberts
Stadium. Hoppenot scored the first three goals of the game to lead
the Tigers to a 4-0 victory over the Bulldogs before a crowd of 803
and a national television audience on the Fox Soccer Channel.

Hoppenot got Princeton (9-5-3, 4-2-1 Ivy) on the board at 13:32
when he took a great cross from Matt Sanner and fired a shot into
the right side of the net. On his second goal at 34:16, he didn't
need any help after taking the ball at midfield, breaking in alone
and blasting a shot into the left side of the goal.

Any hopes of a Yale comeback were thwarted when Hoppenot scored
early in the second half to make it 3-0. This one came off the
rebound of a Sanner shot that hit the crossbar. Tim Sedwitz then
capped the scoring with a goal at 87:34.

"We had difficulty possessing the ball," said Yale head coach
Brian Tompkins. "Princeton was very opportunistic in capitalizing
on our mistakes and that was the story of the game."

The Tigers, who could still earn a share of the Ivy title with
some favorable results this weekend, are unbeaten in their
last seven games and were 14th in the latest Division I RPI
released by the NCAA on Tuesday.

Princeton outshot Yale 17-8, but the Bulldogs had a 3-2 edge in
corner kicks.

Yale ends its season with a 5-9-3 overall record and a 2-5 Ivy
mark.

"This will give us plenty of incentive to work hard over the
winter and in the spring to get better for next year," Tompkins
said.